get off my lawn you orange clad hippies
Posted by: Matt McCormick | From: April 13, 2007
so you could wait a couple weeks and watch the new Shins video on MTV, but all the cool kids are watching it here.
directors are supposed to do a lot of pointing
The hand signals were great. I wonder where the balloons ended up.
Posted by: dalas v at April 13, 2007 3:24 PM
i hope we didn't kill any turtles! most of the balloons you see floating away are actually computer animation. the clusters of balloons are tied down with fishing line, and then in the big master shot at the end we did let some balloons fly away, but then composited three additional layers and added a bunch more, so that we essentially made what was probably 40 balloons look like 400 balloons. if you freeze frame it you can actually start to see the pattern repeating, kind of like looking through a digital kaleidoscope.
Posted by: matt mc at April 15, 2007 12:27 PM
I am so happy that those balloons did not really all fly away!
Cool solution/movie magic!
Posted by: sarah at April 16, 2007 10:33 AM
wonderful. my son and i were mesmerized. i loved the sweetness of the narrative. baxter liked the part where the shins steal the balloons. i look forward to seeing more.
Posted by: melia donovan at April 17, 2007 7:40 AM
Thats good. I didnt think you would release tons of balloon. cool video.
Posted by: ryan at April 18, 2007 1:20 PM
very nice work! i realy like the way the sky looks when they are stealing the balloons
Posted by: daniel at April 13, 2007 2:11 PM